date: Wed Jun 18 14:36:55 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: FOI correspndence to: "Palmer Dave Mr \(LIB\)" , "Tim Osborn" , "Briffa Keith Prof \(ENV\)" , "Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\)" Dave, Michael, We have just spoken to John Mitchell. Apart from contacting Marion Archer you should also try and speak to Nick Benson, who is a lawyer at the Met Office. So can you persevere with trying to contact her. John is in Geneva at the moment but will be back contactable in the UK on Friday. John doesn't seem to be getting much advice at the Met Office. We have told him that you will send hard copies of the proposed response and copies of the earlier letters and responses. John's address is Dr John Mitchell Met Office > FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom > Tel: +44 (0)1392 886427 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681 Below is the issue about the web site Cheers Phil See below re the point I made at the end of our meeting this morning. I suspect it relates to this sub-page [1]http://www.sepp.org/Archive/controv/ipcccont/ipcccont.html X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5200,2160,5317"; a="19333533" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,642,1204531200"; d="scan'208";a="19333533" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:59:06 -0700 From: Ben Santer Reply-To: santer1@llnl.gov Organization: LLNL User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070529) To: amlibpub@gmail.com Subject: Your website X-Canit-CHI2: 0.00 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, f028) X-Spam-Score: 2.20 (**) [Hold at 5.00] DEAR_SOMETHING X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:f028 (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 4863214 - 5365aa23d9e0 X-Antispam-Training-Forget: [2]https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=4863214&m=5365aa23d9e0&c=f X-Antispam-Training-Nonspam: [3]https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=4863214&m=5365aa23d9e0&c=n X-Antispam-Training-Spam: [4]https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=4863214&m=5365aa23d9e0&c=s X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.185 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk id m5DMx7RU011714 X-UEA-Spam-Score: 0.8 X-UEA-Spam-Level: / X-UEA-Spam-Flag: NO To the Editor American Liberty Publishers Minneapolis, MN 55418 Dear Sir, Your website ([5]http://www.amlibpub.com/top/contact_us.html) was recently brought to my attention. On this site, you make the following claims: "In the Second Assessment Report, Benjamin Santer, lead author of a crucial study, falsified a chart to make it appear to support global warminga conclusion not supported at all by the original data. But two climatologists, Knappenberger and Michaels, looked up the data and exposed the fraud. Santer said he adjusted the data to make it agree with political policy." These claims have no factual basis whatsoever, and are demonstrably libelous. I did not falsify data. I did not commit fraud. I did not - nor have I ever - "adjusted" scientific data "to make it agree with political policy." Nor did I ever state that I had made data adjustments in order to conform to political policy. I request that you retract these claims immediately. They are completely fictitious, and are harmful to my scientific reputation. If you do not retract these claims immediately, I will transfer this matter to the attention of legal staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sincerely, Dr. Benjamin Santer U.S. Dept. of Energy Distinguished Scientist (2006) Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2002) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow (1998) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103 Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A. Tel: (925) 422-2486 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------